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A 1964 file photo shows then U.S. Attorney Gen. Robert F. Kennedy in his office in Washington, D.C. Kennedy owned one of 48 printed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation that were signed by Lincoln, and now the copy Kennedy purchased in 1964 is being sold by his widow, Ethel, in a Dec. 10 sale at Sotheby's. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain speaks after a press conference at the Suzuka Circuit, in central Japan, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. The Japanese Grand Prix will be held Sunday. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2007 file photo, rapper Beanie Sigel enters court in Philadelphia. Sigel is facing criminal charges for alleged tax fraud. Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia say the entertainer born Dwight Grant made $1.5 million from 2002 to 2004, but filed no tax returns. The tax charges come in a federal information filed Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - In an Aug. 1, 2000, file photo Teddy Pendergrass performs at the Good Neighbor Community Outreach Celebration in Philadelphia. The son and second wife of Pendergrass are locked in a battle over the late R&B singer's estate. Teddy Pendergrass II and Joan Pendergrass have produced conflicting wills since the singer died of colon cancer in January. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)
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Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat (right), and Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez discuss the disappearance of David Hartley in Mexico. (Associated Press)
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Law enforcement authorities search a US Airways Airbus A319 jet on a taxiway at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, after reports that someone without a security badge was helping load the Bermuda-bound plane. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Attorney Danny Lampley was jailed for several hours Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, by a Mississippi judge for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court. (AP Photo/Lee County, Miss., Sheriff's Department)
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** FILE ** Col. Russell Williams salutes as he arrives at the Battle of Britain parade in Trenton, Ontario, in September 2009. Michael Edelson, Col. Williams' lawyer, told a judge on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, that his client intends to plead guilty to murder, sexual assault and dozens of breaking-and-entering charges at his next court appearance Oct. 18. (AP Photo/Canadian Department of National Defense via Canadian Press)
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** FILE ** In this file photo from Oct. 6, 2010, Albert Snyder, whose free-speech case was then being reviewed by the Supreme Court, makes a statement in front of the court on Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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Members of the Westboro Baptist Church picket in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. The court was hearing the free-speech dispute between Albert Snyder of York, Pa., and the Topeka, Kan., church. The case focuses on whether the church has the right to protest at funerals. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a request for an injunction in federal court in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday on behalf of Ariana Iacono, 14, who was suspended from high school over her nose piercing. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin announces a lawsuit Wednesday challenging EPA regulations.
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Bellevue, Wash., City Council member John Chelminiak and his wife, Lynn Semler, share a light moment Wednesday during an otherwise harrowing news conference about surviving a bear attack. (Associated Press)
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), accompanied by U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez (right) of the District of Puerto Rico and FBI Executive Director Shawn Henry, answers questions during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Earlier in the day, FBI agents arrested scores of Puerto Rican police officers for allegedly aiding drug dealers. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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Prominent Opposition figure Birtukan Mideksa, middle in green jacket, is being greeted by hundreds of her supporters shortly after her release in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Wednesday, Oct.6, 2010. (AP Photo/Samson Haileyesus)
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Margie Phelps, center, and Shirley Phelps-Roper, left, of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Tokepa Kan., speaks in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., and the Westboro Baptist Church. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Margie Phelps, right, and Shirley Phelps-Roper, second from right, of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Tokepa Kan., speak to the press in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., and the Westboro Baptist Church. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Tokepa Kan., lower right, celebrates as she walks down the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010,with Margie Phelps, left, the lawyer and church member who argued the case for the Westboro Baptist Church, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., and the Westboro Baptist Church. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Albert Snyder of York, Pa., left, steps aside after making a statement in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Snyder and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. At right is Kansas Attorney Gen. Stephen Six. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Albert Snyder of York, Pa., second from left, leaves theSupreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, with retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Larry Twitchell, left, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Snyder and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
